{"id":15125,"date":"2017-04-01T18:31:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T22:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=15125"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:42:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:42:57","slug":"fly-me-to-the-moon-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2017\/04\/fly-me-to-the-moon-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly Me to the Moon, Alice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An item from The <em>If Trump Really Wants to Fix Something<\/em> Department:<\/p>\n<p>I am planning to go on a photo outing with old photography friends from Canada in July.\u00a0 To save money, I have been looking at flights to Toronto from nearby airports, including Charlotte (two hours to the east of me) and Knoxville (two hours to the west).<\/p>\n<p>The best-priced flight I have found leaves Knoxville at 11:05 am and arrives in Toronto at 6:28 pm, with one stop.\u00a0 The round-trip ticket costs $253 and the trip duration is 7 hours 23 minutes.\u00a0 Add two hours for the drive to Knoxville and two hours advance-arrival at the airport for international flights, and I would have to leave the house at 7:00 am.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, I could depart from Charlotte at 4:25 pm and arrive in Toronto at 6:28 pm on a non-stop flight.\u00a0 The trip duration is only 2 hours 3 minutes but this round-trip ticket\u00a0 costs $595.\u00a0 With the two-hour drive and two-hour advance arrival, I would need to leave the house at aboout 12:30 pm.\u00a0 I could have both breakfast and lunch at home.<\/p>\n<p>Astute readers may have noticed where I am going with this.\u00a0 Yes, the Knoxville trip and the Charlotte trip arrive in Toronto at the same time.\u00a0 The first leg of the Knoxville flight heads to &#8212; where else &#8212; Charlotte.\u00a0 There, the plane sits on the tarmac 4 hours 11 minutes as it morphs from a one-stop $253 flight into a non-stop $595 flight to Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that American Airlines hopes that I will pay another $342 for the sake of saving 5 hours 2o minutes in this bizarre air-flight tango that seems to have nothing to do with the cost or logic of travel but everything to do with good-old supply-and-demand.<\/p>\n<p>I am considering driving the thirteen hours to Canada, not that the airlines care.\u00a0 They are confident they will get somebody to pay who is willing to pay.\u00a0 Just like the hokey-pokey, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An item from The If Trump Really Wants to Fix Something Department: I am planning to go on a photo outing with old photography friends from Canada in July.\u00a0 To save money, I have been looking at flights to Toronto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2017\/04\/fly-me-to-the-moon-alice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15125"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15141,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15125\/revisions\/15141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}